PCI: add pci_try_set_mwi

As suggested by Andrew, add pci_try_set_mwi(), which does not require
return-value checking.

- add pci_try_set_mwi() without __must_check
- make it return 0 on success, errno if the "try" failed or error
- review callers

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/pci.txt b/Documentation/pci.txt
index 7d3da30ff0b4..7754f5aea4e9 100644
--- a/Documentation/pci.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pci.txt
@@ -296,7 +296,10 @@ If the PCI device can use the PCI Memory-Write-Invalidate transaction,
 call pci_set_mwi().  This enables the PCI_COMMAND bit for Mem-Wr-Inval
 and also ensures that the cache line size register is set correctly.
 Check the return value of pci_set_mwi() as not all architectures
-or chip-sets may support Memory-Write-Invalidate.
+or chip-sets may support Memory-Write-Invalidate.  Alternatively,
+if Mem-Wr-Inval would be nice to have but is not required, call
+pci_try_set_mwi() to have the system do its best effort at enabling
+Mem-Wr-Inval.
 
 
 3.2 Request MMIO/IOP resources